Kandahar
or CANDAHAR (känwhich send to almost every street its canals drawn from a neighboring river, level. Kandahar is well watered by two ern Afghanistan; 3,484 feet above sealevel. Kandahar is well watered by two canals drawn from a neighboring river, which send to almost every street its own adequate supply; and the same means of irrigation have covered the immediate vicinity with gardens and orchards. Kandahar is a commercial center, trading with Bombay, Herat, Bokpivot for the history of that part of Asia pivot for the history of that part of Asia during more than 2,000 years. It is supposed to have been founded by Alexander the Great. Mahmud of Ghazni wrested it from the Afghans. In the war of 1878-1880 the British entered evacuated the rest of Afghanistan. Pop. city till 1881, some months after they had evacuated the rest of Afghanistan. Pop. between 50,000 and 100,000.